Word: attracted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arbitrary as it is, the University's spring does seem uncannily able to attract people back to Cambridge. Students, of course, can defy the academic season and remain on the ski slopes only at the cost of a cold $10. President Pusey, however, is flying back from the West Coast presumably of his own volition, and the Overseers' Committee to Visit Harvard College will come visiting Friday to see if the expansion problem looks any different now that study cards are blooming. Perhaps this time the Overseers, with the sharpened insight of spring, will come upon some "average students...
President Pusey will climax his first official visit to the West Coast tonight with an address before the combined Harvard Clubs of Southern California. The event, which marks the first visit of a University President to the Coast in nine years, is scheduled to attract 1000 alumni, family and friends to the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles...
Doctrinaire, too intellectual to attract the working classes, the Socialist Party declined steadily from its 1945 peak. It became overloaded with civil servants, postmen, schoolteachers and "leather-chair" (French equivalent of whitecollar) workers, and had little strength in the factories and fields. When the Socialists joined conservative governments, disillusioned supporters deserted to the Communists. In 1951 Mollet declared a policy of nonparticipation, and kept his Socialists out of government and in the posture of general opposition for four years...
Fringe benefits have become an increasingly important part of university salary programs in recent years as institutions have vied to find ways to attract and hold promising young teachers. Elaborate faculty housing is often provided and, when this is impracticable, as at Columbia, rent allowances are given...
...Scala Manager Antonio Ghiringhelli expects to fill his new hall regularly, if only because there is a constant audience overflow from the old one. In addition to presenting chamber operas in the proper surroundings, he hopes to attract new and even experimental works by living composers. Already scheduled: Mozart's Cost fan Tutte, Scarlatti's Mitridate Eupatore, De Falla's Master Peter's Puppet-Show, Stravinsky's ballet, Apollon Musagetes...